Reset, Creation (2)

Immediately, he utilized his abilities again to create a pocket space, before thinking, how had his universe-creating spell, [Origin Universe], improved since his recent breakthrough? He checked the system and went to the description of the skill.

[Origin Universe (sealed, 11% unlocked)]: Combining all origin elements except the Void element, one is able to create a small, stable, and independent ordered system in the Great Void, existing until the ordered system set collapses. It can now absorb and convert the Void Element to origin elements to grow, stabilize and enhance the created ordered system, with a maximum size of 2^121 light-years. The size growth is approximately 0.5 light-years per year, taking around 5.31x10^27 giga-anums, where 1 giga-annum is 1 billion years, to reach its limit size. In the Void, however, the space it takes up does not increase but remains the same.

Xander thought about the spell's description and wondered, what if I bring my newly-created universe in the Great Void back into the universe I came from? Would it destroy my universe or devour it? Or would it cause it to reject its existence and not allow its entry?

I should test it out after finishing college. Probably by then, the world hasn't ended, anyways.

Xander utilized the two spells, [Pocket Dimension] and [Origin Universe] to establish a semi-independent, living pocket space.

In the beginning, there was simply empty space where no elements other than space existed.

In the next moment, time began to flow in the pocket space, and elements began to exist within the space, appearing and multiplying, their rules solidifying and creating conformations. Light appeared, creating a light-day cycle in the pocket space. At this moment, it was still empty with no physical matter born from the elements, besides Xander.

Using the soil he got from the garden, he began temporally replicating them in tremendous amounts, exponentially increasing them to the point of creating several octillion tons of soil at minimum all over the pocket space.

The soil of course was not enough for the size of the pocket space that he would design; he needed to ensure that the concentration of earth elements would be high enough to create a stable land and the elements related to gravity would be established within the land. After all, the soil would simply float in space if there was no attracting or stabilizing force for land to exist.

He structured the pocket space like a Mobius strip, so the living space is actually manifesting itself as a one-sided ribbon configuration. Within that dimension, the land was uneven, with plains, mountains, hills, valleys, crevices, canyons, and large gaps between the similarly-leveled land, creating the foundation of oceans, seas, rivers, and lakes, where everything just loops back to each other. Gravity is standardized in every location, following the basics of gravitational pull.

The size of the space if one walks through it would be 2 light-years in length, looping back to its original starting point. The area, or how wide it is, however, was limited to 1 light-year in width. In terms of the distance from the end of the space to the highest point in the sky, well, it was a total of 2 light-years, no matter what your location was in the pocket space. From the topsoil to the lower border of the space, it was roughly 1 light-year.

After the land and numerous structures have been formed successfully, they were further reinforced by the earth/metal elements, forming a solid foundation for the ground. Water elements began to appear, so did Air elements. Water began to fill the basins, the crevices, and concaves on the ground, rapidly filling the pocket space, up to thousands of kilometers in depth of water until it reached sea level. This created more variation in the type of land being formed, refined by the other elements.

At this point, pressure, velocity, temperature, entropy, and other physical rules came forth, guided by the elements representing them under the 5-element series and origin elements, structured and formed by the Order and chaos elements. Xander could not modify the rules easily as it is a semi-independent space, so the changes cannot be too large or disorderly or risk the self-collapse of elemental order.

Wood elements began to appear next, covering the soil with greenery.

Hidden crevices in the mountains, caves, places without light or hint of life: Life was beginning to bloom. Even deep underwater, plant life could be seen blooming in the darkness. From the wood elements, they began to undergo a cycle of life and death, giving birth to earth/metal elements, compounding itself to the soil, reinforcing or modifying them to be capable of nurturing future life.

From light, came fire being manifested for the first time, on a wood element medium, giving rise to the appearance of fire elements. Deserts, volcanoes, geothermal springs, lava lakes began to appear in the pocket space, creating a diverse view of the world.

Upon seeing the 5 elements being established after the origin elements, Xander felt a sigh of relief. It wouldn't be too far before the other elements appear as well, and since the set-up was complete, he can now manipulate the ordered system in this pocket space.

First and foremost, he established the rule of life evolution. It was basically non-existent here because Xander hasn't comprehended a lot about the Order and Chaos elements to establish the rule perfectly, so he just removed it out of the equation, rather than be exploited like what the Runic lifeform did to the previous garden. However, with the power of Life-Death elements, he can establish the formation of sentience in the biological and non-biological matter.

If he placed a flower and it survived under normal conditions, it would probably gain sentience after a few hundreds of years, but may not necessarily produce a sprite. Similar to placing an animal here; it would also gain sentience, but not necessarily transform into a magic beast. Maybe these sentient animals can be considered a new type of being?

Reproduction in this pocket space would literally be cloning the previous generation because of the rule of life evolution. If plants decided to interbreed, randomly between the two of them, one would have their genes copied and created into a new life. The same goes for plants and animals placed in this space.

Second, he modified the time acceleration to 1 second: 2 years or 172,000 years per day. This was a stable value of time acceleration with the following size configurations of the space. He would need to reinforce it once every 10 years. If he left it untouched, approximately 630.7 million years would have passed, allowing sentient beings in the dimension to actually reach, well, Sage-class strength.

Third, the formation of sprites and magic beasts. To avoid the problem of unwanted sprites and magic beasts being formed, he only made sure that sprites of certain elements can only be formed. He did not allow Origin elements to form sprites or magic beasts. Not only that, but there were also areas in the pocket space where there would be no formation of sprites or magic beasts whatsoever.

After this was set up, he began putting his plans into order. For the next couple of years inside the pocket space, he was quite busy.

First, he placed a total of 400 libraries with identical contents of 40,000,000 million books, novels, comics, writings, and research papers, around 0.1 light-years away from one another. There were also libraries underwater and above the water, and even on-air, floating like a fortress. It was made with the same strongest alloy available from the Galactic Empire, the same type he made in the original garden. He also ensured that within a 2-kilometer radius, nothing would grow in the ground, nor could any material stand above it, within it, or on it. To ensure that the libraries would be noticed by the sprites, sentient beings, and magic beasts, he basically increased the density of the elements under the Origin elements in the area.

It has the same rules as the previous library he established; no one was allowed to take a book out, and they can stay for as long as 7 days. Time is slower inside, roughly 1 second outside the library: 1 day inside the library, or 1,656 years. The library was also very big, around 10 kilometers in diameter to fit all those materials. There was also a digital terminal present in the library, allowing them to choose and read a book on the screen if it wasn't available because someone is currently reading it.

To ensure that they would be very happy, welcoming, and give respect and reverence to Xander's presence in the garden, he inserted himself in the books, adding a sketch of himself in every book, novel, comics available.

He also plastered a statue of himself, his 7-year-old self, that would also change as he grows and ages. This would ensure that if time passed by and there were circumstances not allowing him to easily enter and visit, his visage and appearance will forever be updating and existing in the minds of every sprite and magic beast that enters the library.

Second, the plants he transferred from the old garden.

He began to plant them in the same fashion as he did, placing them in one secluded corner of the world where the rule of no sprites or magic beasts' formation applied. That plot of land was quite large, roughly 10,000,000 square kilometers. He planted the grown plants, a total of 120 species and 20 plants each species or 2400 plants all in all, in these places. He also modified the environment based on their elemental affinity to where they grow best. Fire, Water, Air, Wood, Earth/Metal, Fortune, Misfortune, Reincarnation, Life, Death, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, etc.

After modifying them, he then looked for a spot to plant the Seed of Life that he had gotten from his room. When he had planted the seed in the most central part of the space pocket, he could feel that the elements, rules, representations, and matter had a qualitative change surrounding the area, and it was gradually increasing in the area of effect. It felt like this was similar to the effect of his spell [Garden of Eden] since it can also grow. He basically ensured through the ordered system that the plant that would grow from the seed of life would never develop sentience nor will it develop to become a sprite. He needed these things to ensure the space he made would be stable. After all, what would happen if one day, the sentient Tree of Life or its sprite said, "I want to leave and explore the universe." That would destabilize the place it was put in.

He thought about the situation and realized something: He really needed more of these kinds of seeds.

Could he try and use [Twilight Sonata] now somewhere in the universe to create the Seeds of Creation and Destruction? Xander thought to himself before he checked through the system if the description for it had changed. After all, it was a Sage-rank spell.

[Twilight Sonata]: Returns everything to their very origin, removing both chaos and order and all their derivatives in the target area, reducing everything into nothing, forming a seed of creation and a seed of destruction. The target area size is based on one's spatial comprehension. The number of seeds produced depends on numerous factors: Number of sentient beings, Amount of Matter, Amount of Element particles, State of Order in the place, and the State of Disorder in the place. The spell can only be activated by casting [Ethereal Sunrise] and [Frenzied Sunset] at the same period of time of the Universe, or UTP. It cannot be used in the Great Void (for now).

It did change, stating now the different factors involved in creating a seed of creation and destruction. If the range of his spell was based on his spatial comprehension, can he use it to 1/2 of the universe? Xander thought about it for a moment before laughing at his own ideas.

It was ok to dream big. But he knew that as a sage spell, maybe the power of the spell was tied up to his comprehension, and his own power as well. Although he had an advantage over space-time spells of not consuming any magic energy, he didn't have that luxury for the other elements.

If he wanted to cast a spell as large as 1/2 of the universe, well, he should have at least the magic and elemental energy reserves for it to be cast, or gain complete control over Order and Chaos elements, like what he had for space-time.

However, this would have to come after gaining complete comprehension of these elements. There was no superior God or being that would hand him the control over these elements this time, he would have to work for it.

He'll try it out once he becomes a peak Legendary Magician, and check if he could at least cover the size of 2 mega galaxies without being too tiring.

Lastly, he placed some of the insects, small animals, medium-sized animals into the pocket space, ranging from aquatic, amphibious, land-based, and air-based animals.

There was a total of 600 different species for each type of animal, spread out and all over the area. For plants, besides the ones he placed, he basically didn't know how many different species were initially born there. He also added some microorganisms, fungi, and protists; he couldn't add viruses because they're not really living and their existence itself is chaotic, with ever-changing mutations and effects. Adding them is like allowing the Rune-like existence to fuck around his space.

Seeing everything was stable, He let out the 4 sprites and magic beast from the contract space in his body. He then instructed them to guide the beings that would appear in this young pocket garden.

He also told them that every around 175,000 years, he would come and visit them, to check up on them as well as the newly-born sprites and magic beasts.

He named it Eden, in remembrance of his old garden.

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He left the garden villa and headed up to his new room. Using time acceleration of 1 second: 1 year, he read all the school material that would be tested for tomorrow.

He also realized that starting tomorrow, until next week, the focus of the study was magic meditation through the use of cultivation skills. I wonder where we would get ours, Xander thought to himself.

Xander then headed to his bed and slept soundly.

Morning came. It was the start of classes once again.